My political safe place....hear me rant....: I love waking up knowing Pres Obama will keep his seat for 4 more years!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

I love waking up knowing Pres Obama will keep his seat for 4 more years!

I know I cannot be the only one who was shocked into the realization that when people see things totally differently...it is just bc we have different perspectives! I am fascinated by this now...I still can't wrap my mind arround the perspective that the President will some how get rid of freedoms...that he some how is someone to fear and that somehow people seem to believe all the fear mongering. Obviously I am not speaking to the well educated and well informed who simply don't agree with basic Democrat policy. That is a different issue. I am referring to people who are so ashamedly misinformed that it is quite frightening--and I try to steer clear of anything that plays with my emotions or makes fear a motivator. But some people really are scary in America. Having said that...even though our country has issues which include a split in political sides, debt that needs to be addressed, fear mongering men and women on tv and radio, hatred, racism, sexism, bigotry, intolerance, greed, selfishness, immorality, anger, so many uneducated, lies, "uncivility"--not sure that is a word, but I like it-- and much more. . . I sure feel better knowing that President Obama is still our President...a man with squeaky clean background, a love for this country, an understanding of Americans, a compassionate man, a wonderful father and husband, an educated man who is very smart, a man who will go down in history for many things...he is a President who has inspired volunteer efforts his first years in office, he inspired activism and awareness...he and the American people will not stand for elected officials who try to define rape or push their ideology or beliefs on the rest of us....I am proud to be an American. I always will be...but today my heart has a lot more joy in it knowing that the President I voted for...vouched for, debated for and fought for earned his seat for another 4 years. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. President...but more importantly, congratulations AMERICA!
Here is a fun little thing about perspectives...what do you see in this picture? An old woman or a young woman? :) Ah, perspectives...isn't it great we all have our own perspective! :)

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JanNovember 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Did you write this article? I love it? I, too, am so happy we have 4 more years.
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BYU commencement in 1972, President Brown counseled graduating students to “Strive to develop a maturity of mind and emotion and a depth of spirit which enables you to differ with others on matters of politics without calling into question the integrity of those with whom you differ. Allow within the bounds of your definition of religious orthodoxy variation of political belief. Do not have the temerity to dogmatize on issues where the Lord has seen fit to be silent.” He also warned, “beware of those who feel obliged to prove their own patriotism by calling into question the loyalty of others. Be skeptical of those who attempt to demonstrate their love of country by demeaning its institutions.”

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
Oh, they can bend it all they want
John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change"

"Let us learn respect for others if we are to realize the abundant life. Man, by nature, is tempted to seek only his glory and not the glory of his neighbor or the glory of his God. None of us lives alone—in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor’s poverty."

-Thomas S Monson

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Scripture of the day:

Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.